Publications

Publication details [#52346]

Capozza, D. and Elena Trifiletti. 2009. Americans are Barbarians or Allies? Images of Americans in the Italian Social Context. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 31 (1) : 60–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

image | perception3 | political anthropology | political system | social context

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study argues that Italian students' political orientation influences their structural perceptions and consequently their image of Americans: right-wing participants prefer the images of ally and even father, whereas left-wing participants associate Americans with barbarians.